Special features for wiki farms and intranets

The following shows how certain features can help you to optimize your configuration when you run several wikis on one host, or when you use MoinMoin in intranet environments.

Centralized settings

farmconfig.py

shared intermap.txt

shared code base and icons

Remapping URLs

The configuration variable "url_mappings" can be used ... lookup table to remap URL prefixes (dict of 'prefix': 'replacement'); especially useful in intranets, when whole trees of externally hosted documents move around

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TODO: explain the following things in detail

Needing more explanation:

event logging

Page trails (user option)

UserPreferences: checkboxes for double-click edit, page trail, fancy links, emoticons, jump to last page visited, and some other yes/no options

User option to open editor view via a double-click

support for Java applet "TWikiDrawPlugin" via drawing:<drawingname> URL scheme (you need to activate the AttachFile action if you want drawings)

<datadir>/plugin/macro and <datadir>/plugin/action can be used to store macros and actions local to a specific wiki instance

config.shared_intermap can contain a pathname to a shared "intermap.txt" file (i.e. one stored outside the datadir)

$PAGE placeholder in interwiki map

Command-line tools:

"moin-dump" command line tool to create a static copy of the wiki content

though not extensively tested, the standalone server now does POST requests, i.e. you can save pages; there are still problems with persistent global variables! It only works for Python >= 2.0.

Compatibility:

Statistical features are NOT designed to work with Python 1.5.2 and require Python 2.0 or higher. Overall, MoinMoin 0.11 is not explicitely tested for 1.5.2 compatibility. The lowest recommended Python version is 2.0!

RSS features require a recent PyXML (CVS or 0.7) due to bugs in the namespace handling of xml.sax.saxutils in earlier versions. This is (hopefully) automatically detected on every installation.